Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will take months before the full implications of Teng's visit are known. At the very least, his tour marks a dramatic new phase in the relationship between the two giant nations, a phase symbolized last week by the signing of scientific and cultural-exchange agreements, by the prospects of greatly increased trade and of another summit conference in China later this year. Over and over, Teng made it clear that he is urgently looking for American credit and technology to modernize his backward nation. The early signs are that he will get much of what he is seeking...
...contradict Carter's past statements in private that the Soviets were indeed delaying SALT because of their concern over the new Sino-American relationship. Some officials suggested that Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko may have to meet to clear away the smoke from Teng's visit before the SALT talks can be completed and a date set for Carter's planned meeting with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev...
...public, Teng at the outset mentioned the Soviets only obliquely. As the week progressed, however, he sharply escalated his attacks. During a visit to Washington's National Gallery, for example, he startled 1,000 guests by saying that the "danger of a new world war" was increasing because of the Kremlin's "zealous pushing of global strategy for world domination." Soon, with no objections from his hosts to restrain him, Teng began turning more and more of his public appearances into forums for assaults on the Soviets, though he took care to do so only when...
These reassurances won Teng high marks from all but the most diehard supporters of Taiwan. Chief among them is Senator Barry Goldwater, who ducked Teng's visit by going home to Arizona for the week. But another conservative leader. Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, called Teng's lobbying "generally effective." Senator Ted Kennedy declared that the Vice Premier had made a "hell of an impression." Said Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York: "He didn't commit himself down the line fon Taiwan], but he said enough so that our normalization can go ahead...
...most controversial guest was Richard Nixon, whom Teng had asked to see because his 1972 trip to Peking began the chain of events that led to normalization of relations. It was Nixon's first visit to the White House since his resignation in 1974, and there were some awkward moments. Speaker O'Neill's wife refused to sit at the same table with him. The former President stayed in a corner of the East Room during cocktails, talking with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I said that I was glad to see him again," said Kissinger...